Lol...no they're not piercings...it's the fastening to the upper part of her dress, which is quite translucent here - another fault of the scanner as the scanner doesn't tend to pick up faint lines very well (in the actual drawing, the dress design is much more apparant), so I can see where you got the piercing thing from ;]
Thanks anyway! :D

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I've seen this image so many times I knew exactly who it was drawn by immediately Fae. So when it came up in my random voting I gave it the same 10 I did way back when. It is still a very beautiful sketch.